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Friday, February 27, 2009

A post about my father.

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My father was a let down to me on many levels. He was never really there when I needed him when I was growing up. My brother used to call hi...
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Thursday, February 26, 2009

An update.

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I found this update online. Don't know who's responsible, but I admire their effort.
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Walking through San Diego Airport.

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I come to a sign that says "Sky Bridge." And I wonder. What other kind of bridge is there?
Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Stanley Kubrick on Management.

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The movie that marked Kubrick's emergence into the big time was "Paths of Glory," a 1957 film that starred Kirk Douglas, the e...

A bit of poetry.

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This is by William Carlos Williams a poet from the last century who knew how to find and take delight and joy in little things. These days w...
Tuesday, February 24, 2009

"The United States Does Not Torture." --Barack Obama

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Well then how do you explain the finance meetings I had to sit through today.
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My leitmotif.

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My leitmotif of the last few weeks, certainly my last couple of posts, has been about waste. The waste that comes with the by committee appr...
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Monday, February 23, 2009

We all bought into this.

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And we are all being damned for it. The "this" I'm talking about is the phrase "approval process." It caught me unaw...

I was wondering about how some marketing departments go about decisioning.

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Historians some decades from now will argue about what to call the era we are now tumbling through. We've had "The Gilded Age,...
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This is not a political commentary.

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Just a link from my childhood to today. Excuse the self-indulgence.
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